Improved camp cooking-stove



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Camp Cooking Stove.-

Patented Sept. 13, 1864.

- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OBED FOOTE, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

IMPROVED CAMP COOKING-STOVE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 44, [75, datedSeptember 13, 1864.

To all whom it concern:

Be it know that I, OBED Foo'rn, of Indian apolis, in the county ofMarion and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and usefulImprovementsin the Construction and Arrangement of Camp Cooking-Stoves,of which the-following is a full and exact description, reference bein ghad to the accompanying drawings and the letters marked thereon.

Figure l is a perspective view showing the general arrangement of thestove and the operation of the same. Fig. 2 shows the front slide ordoor open, showing the interior of the stove.

A is the body of the stove.

B is the smoke pipe.

0 is the front slide or door.

D are the projecting cleats forming grooves to receive the slide or door0. To the bottom plate are attached feet 8. The bottom plate, E,

operates sliding in the grooves F, so as to be drawn out when required.

G and II are reflectors or bakers with the windows R covered by thehinged cap Q, and are attached by means of the hingedhooks U beingplaced in the sockets T. The hinged leg K is designed to support thereflectors when not attached or hung to the stove.

L are camp kettles.

M and N are frying-pans.

W is a pan fitted to the interior of the reflector resting upon ledges,so as to be taken out when required.

The following is the operation of the stove: The fire being placed inthe same, the frying and boiling is done upon the top, using the pans MNand the kettles L. The reflectingbakers G and H, when that which is tobe roasted is placed in the pan WV, are attached by placing the hooks Uin the sockets T, and by looking through the glass or window R,

the progess ot' the cooking may be ascertained The bottom plate, E,being withdrawn from the grooves F, the body fthe stove is placed downso that the fire is built upon the ground, thus avoiding the destructionof the bottom plate. \Nhen the cooking is over, the smokepipe Bis takenoff and placed the one joint in the other, which may be done from itstaporing form, it increasing as itgoes up, and increasing the force ofits draft thereby. The reflectors are placed the one with the other, thepans WV having been removed 5 then the feet 8, having been drawn outfrom the bottom plate, and, with all the other utensils, packed snurlyin the stove with reflectors, pipe, and all, the bottom slide, E, isplaced in the groove F, and the slide or door (J closed it all forms asnug box to be packed for transportation.

The advantages of this arrangement are that it is cheaply constructedand can be packed in a very small space for transportation, and can beoperated to cook for a large company, and that the fire can be builtdirect- 1y on the ground at the same time that baking and roasting arebeing done.

Having described my improvement in portable camp cooking-stoves, What Iclaim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The arrangement of the stove with sliding or portable bottom plateoperating in the grooves F and sliding front or door, the whole beingcombined with the reflectors G and 11 having the window It and cap Q andthe hinged leg or foot K, in the manner and for the purposes set forth.

OBED FOOTE.

Wi ne-ses:

1t. L. MoOLUor, WILLIAM PRAY.

